tioaboa Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Time to give back to this very valuble site! To remove that dratted Outlook Express Icon from the Quick Launch bar for good, for any new profile delete the stub path from this keyIn regedit, locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}Delete only the value 'StubPath' - (StubPath - REG_EXPAND_SZ - "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\setup50.exe"/app:OE/CALLER:WINNT/user/install)I remove it as part of a VBS Script, Create This file by pasting the text in to a VBS fileDim WshShell, bKeySet WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}\StubPath"RegardsIan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hj_fr Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 In unattend.txt file when installing Windows:[Components] OEAccess=off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tioaboa Posted November 15, 2004 Author Share Posted November 15, 2004 On win2k that doesn't work as each new profile has its own access defaults.even if OE isn't on the start menu its added to the quick lauch by default, clearing that key prevents the active setup portion of the registry from creating icon.we use Outlook as a corperate std, and we still have dumb users who click on OE and wonder where their mail is ! so the icon has to go!RegardsIan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted November 15, 2004 Share Posted November 15, 2004 Thanks for sharing your tweak and script. I will keep it to avoid this annoying icon appearing in QuickLaunch bar on W2K installs.For Registry Console Tool addictsREG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}" /v StubPath /f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted November 15, 2004 Share Posted November 15, 2004 Here is the .REG file I use:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}]"StubPath"=-This works on Win 2000 and Win 2003 and XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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